Gardener on the roof (Part 1)

As I explained in my introduction post, I live on the top floor of a 100+ year old building that has been turned into an antique shop/flea market. As the only tenant in the building, my landlord gave me permission to try to raise a garden on the roof. Whether or not it would succeed was a complete unknown but it's worth a shot and I will learn what to do differently for next summer.

I started in mid April with these wooden boxes that were given to me.

In the end, one of the bigger wooden boxes was too rotten to be of use so I had to make do with 1 big box and 2 of the shallow ones (which turned out to be completely useless but more on that in a later post)

Mounted the boxes to the roof and filled them with soil and decided to plant radishes in 1 shallow box, lettuce in the other and split the bigger box in 2 for a cucumber and a tomato plant.

Just a few days later, sprouts were starting.
The idea was to let the plants start and cull the smaller and weaker ones until only the best plant was left. Everything was going well and hopes were high.

But everything changed, when the fire nation attacked...

Ok not quite that dramatic but our areas was caught in a once-in-a-lifetime rainfall and subsequent floods and everything I had growing died and the whole garden had to be started over in mid-May.

To be continued...

To get a better idea of how bad the area was damaged, check out this post:

https://steemit.com/news/@papa-pepper/natural-distaster-in-southern-missouri